Tracts on medical jurisprudence : i ncluding Farr's Elements of medical jurisprudence ; Dease's Remarks on medical jurisprudence, Male's Epitome of juridical or forensic medicine, and Haslam's Treatise on insanity : with a preface, notes, and a digest of the law relating to insanity and nuisance / by Thomas Cooper, Esq. M.D. professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania, and heretofore president judge of the fourth judiciary district of Pennsylvania ; to which is added an appendix, containing Erskine's speech for James Hadfield, indicted for shooting at the king ; an abstract of a report of the trial of Abraham Kessler, indicted for poisoning his wife with white arsenic, and laudanum, and a memoir on the chromat of pot-ash, as a test for detecting arsenic, copper, and corrosive sublimate : by Thomas Cooper, Esq. ; read before the Am. Ph. Society, Sep. 18, 1818.

  • Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Tracts on medical jurisprudence : i ncluding Farr's Elements of medical jurisprudence ; Dease's Remarks on medical jurisprudence, Male's Epitome of juridical or forensic medicine, and Haslam's Treatise on insanity : with a preface, notes, and a digest of the law relating to insanity and nuisance / by Thomas Cooper, Esq. M.D. professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania, and heretofore president judge of the fourth judiciary district of Pennsylvania ; to which is added an appendix, containing Erskine's speech for James Hadfield, indicted for shooting at the king ; an abstract of a report of the trial of Abraham Kessler, indicted for poisoning his wife with white arsenic, and laudanum, and a memoir on the chromat of pot-ash, as a test for detecting arsenic, copper, and corrosive sublimate : by Thomas Cooper, Esq. ; read before the Am. Ph. Society, Sep. 18, 1818. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The Study of Medical Jurisprudence is much more attended to on the Continent of Europe, than in Great Britain or in this country, where it has hy no means received the attention due to its importance. I know of no book on the subject published here, or any lectures delivered, except those of Dr. Charles Caldwell, of Philadelphia, which were not attended so well as might reasonably have been expected, whe- ther from the novelty of the subject or the ability with which it was treated. But the time is approaching when Medical Jurisprudence will force itself on the notice of the public, and exact the attention to which it is entitled. To enable the medical and legal student to be- come acquainted with the elements of this branch of knowledge, I have published the book now offered to his perusal. I have preferred republishing the most approved tracts on Medical Jurisprudence, which have issued from the British press, to any com- position of my own; because, where similar doctrines are advanced at different periods of time, by authors of reputation on the subject, they form an accumula-